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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 MEGAN WHITE, et al., No. 2:21-cv-2211 JAM-SCR Plaintiffs, v. ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION

SACRAMENTO POLICE FOR DISCOVERY SANCTIONS DEPARTMENT, et al., 14 Defendants. 15 Plaintiffs move to exclude Defendants’ expert disclosure (“Motion to Exclude”), which was filed two weeks beyond the deadline set by the Court. ECF No. 73. Defendants do not dispute that their late disclosure violated Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2)(D), but argue that the sanction of exclusion is unwarranted under the circumstances. At a hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion, the Court granted Plaintiffs additional time to designate expert rebuttal witnesses and additional time to oppose Defendants’ motion for summary judgment. ECF No. 80. For the reasons provided below, the Court now denies Plaintiffs’ request to exclude Defendants’ expert disclosures but orders, as alternative sanctions, that Defendants (1) be precluded from…